For projects in Delhi
Hospital and healthcare acoustics in Delhi
Two duties at once: privacy where confidential conversations happen, and a lower noise floor where people are trying to rest. Hygiene and cleanability rule out a lot of products before acoustics is even discussed. Diesel generator sets, split unit banks and VRF outdoor units sit on terraces and in shafts close to bedrooms and offices.
- Consulting room privacy
- Speech privacy between rooms, which is partition, door and ceiling void work.
- Ward noise floor
- Alarms, trolleys and staff conversation in hard corridors. Absorption at the ceiling.
- Cleanability
- Non shedding, non absorbent surfaces that survive a cleaning regime.
- Quote
- From a plan and a section, within 48 hours
01 / The material
What you are buying, and what it fixes in Delhi
Two duties at once: privacy where confidential conversations happen, and a lower noise floor where people are trying to rest. Hygiene and cleanability rule out a lot of products before acoustics is even discussed.
Diesel generator sets, split unit banks and VRF outdoor units sit on terraces and in shafts close to bedrooms and offices.
Work reaching us from Delhi is mostly offices, studios, banquet halls, clinics, schools, home theatres, restaurants, showrooms.
- Same day from the plant Ninety kilometres of road. Low freight cost, next-day samples, and a damaged sheet replaced without a two-week wait.
- We can come and look Delhi is close enough that a site visit is straightforward. On a difficult room that is worth more than any amount of specification over email.
- Old walls and new towers Lutyens bungalows, 1970s DDA flats and glass towers all fail differently. We ask what the wall actually is before quoting anything.
- Consulting room privacy Speech privacy between rooms, which is partition, door and ceiling void work.
Full specification
Thickness, density, NRC by frequency, fire class, standard sizes and build-up detail for healthcare acoustics are on the main product page. This page covers what that means for a project in Delhi.
02 / The build-up
The build-up, layer by layer
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Layer 1
PET felt acoustic panels
A rigid non-woven panel pressed from 100% polyester fibre, a large part of it recycled. In Delhi, diesel generator sets, split unit banks and VRF outdoor units sit on terraces and in shafts close to bedrooms and offices.
Direct to wall. Panel bonded or mechanically fixed flat to the substrate. Simplest, and the weakest at low frequency.
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Layer 2
Acoustic carpet and rugs
A tile carpet with a dense polyester face on a felt backing. In Delhi, auditoriums, banquet halls and places of worship are large hard volumes in concrete and stone where speech falls apart long before anyone calls the room echoey.
Over a resilient underlay. Where impact noise to the floor below is the actual complaint, the underlay does that work, not the carpet.
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Layer 3
SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl
A limp, high density sheet that adds mass to a partition, floor or duct without adding depth. In Delhi, classrooms are concrete and tile with bare walls and high ceilings, and class sizes push levels up. Corridors act as reverberation chambers that feed every room off them.
Wall, decoupled. Independent stud, membrane between the boards, cavity absorption, two boards. The membrane is one part of a system, never the whole answer.
For a Delhi practice, the useful thing is a detail you can put in a drawing set, not a brochure. See how we support architects.
03 / In this market
What we see driving Delhi briefs
- Same day from the plant
Ninety kilometres of road. Low freight cost, next-day samples, and a damaged sheet replaced without a two-week wait.
- We can come and look
Delhi is close enough that a site visit is straightforward. On a difficult room that is worth more than any amount of specification over email.
- Old walls and new towers
Lutyens bungalows, 1970s DDA flats and glass towers all fail differently. We ask what the wall actually is before quoting anything.
- Traffic and generators get in
On most Delhi sites the noise arrives through windows, shafts and gaps rather than through the wall itself. Fixing the weakest path first saves money.
- Plant and HVAC
Diesel generator sets, split unit banks and VRF outdoor units sit on terraces and in shafts close to bedrooms and offices.
04 / Room by room
What each space in a Delhi project needs
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Consulting room privacy
Speech privacy between rooms, which is partition, door and ceiling void work. Ninety kilometres of road. Low freight cost, next-day samples, and a damaged sheet replaced without a two-week wait.
- PET felt acoustic panels, 100% PET non-woven, no added binder
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, STC 30, 5.25 kg per sq m
- Acoustic panels, Cut pattern in PET felt, adds visual rhythm without changing the absorber
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Ward noise floor
Alarms, trolleys and staff conversation in hard corridors. Absorption at the ceiling. Delhi is close enough that a site visit is straightforward. On a difficult room that is worth more than any amount of specification over email.
- PET felt acoustic panels, 9, 12, 18 and 24 mm standard, tolerance plus or minus 5 percent
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, STC 34, 8.4 kg per sq m
- Acoustic panels, ASTM C423
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Cleanability
Non shedding, non absorbent surfaces that survive a cleaning regime. Lutyens bungalows, 1970s DDA flats and glass towers all fail differently. We ask what the wall actually is before quoting anything.
- PET felt acoustic panels, 4 to 24 mm
- SoundBlanket mass loaded vinyl, 12.6 kg per sq m, STC on request
- Acoustic panels, 9 to 24 mm, 1220 x 2440 mm standard, up to 2440 x 4270 mm, 1200 to 3600 GSM
For a Delhi interior where the finish leads, we will say plainly what each option costs you acoustically. See how we work with interior designers.
04 / Climate and durability
Durability in Delhi, before acoustics is discussed
Delhi is hot summers, mild winters and a distinct wet season, and that narrows the material list before acoustics is discussed.
PET felt handles the wet months without absorbing moisture or feeding mould. Timber and wood wool want a ventilated cavity and a stable indoor RH.
The failure we design against here is wet-season humidity behind linings.
On a Delhi job with a consultant involved, our part is material that matches the submitted data. See working with acoustic consultants.
06 / Before you buy
The six errors that cost the most
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Fabric wrapped products in a clinical area
Noise with a source is fixed at the source. Treating the receiving room is the expensive way to get a small result.
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Absorption used where privacy was the requirement
Privacy is a transmission problem. Absorption makes the room sound nicer and does not stop anyone hearing through the wall.
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Ceiling void left open above a partition
The ceiling is almost always the largest untreated surface, so leaving it out means paying for panels that cannot reach the target.
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Treating it as a generic Delhi job
Ninety kilometres of road. Low freight cost, next-day samples, and a damaged sheet replaced without a two-week wait.
05 / Getting it there
Supply into Delhi, start to site
| Made at | Our own plant, Palwal, Haryana |
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| Reaches site in | same or next day |
| Dispatch | 2 to 4 working days |
| To site | same or next day |
| Support | Drawings, build-ups, BOQ and material that arrives complete |
Standard items dispatch in 2 to 4 working days from our plant at Palwal. Grooved panels and custom colours take longer, and we say so before you order, not after.
Same day or next day by road from Palwal, about ninety kilometres south. Small consignments on a shared vehicle, full loads on a dedicated truck.
Questions from Delhi projects
What makes hospital and healthcare acoustics different in Delhi?
Diesel generator sets, split unit banks and VRF outdoor units sit on terraces and in shafts close to bedrooms and offices. Delhi is close enough that a site visit is straightforward. On a difficult room that is worth more than any amount of specification over email.
Where should the budget go first on a Delhi project?
Consulting room privacy. Speech privacy between rooms, which is partition, door and ceiling void work. Ward noise floor. Alarms, trolleys and staff conversation in hard corridors. Absorption at the ceiling.
Do you have an office or installation team in Delhi?
No. We manufacture in India and supply into Delhi. We give you drawings, build-ups, a BOQ and material that arrives complete, and we will tell you plainly when a job needs a local contractor we cannot be.
How does material get to a Delhi site?
made at: Our own plant, Palwal, Haryana, reaches site in: same or next day, dispatch: 2 to 4 working days. Standard items dispatch in 2 to 4 working days from our plant at Palwal. Grooved panels and custom colours take longer, and we say so before you order, not after.
What goes wrong most often on this kind of project?
Fabric wrapped products in a clinical area. Absorption used where privacy was the requirement.
What do you need from us to quote?
A plan, a section through the critical partition or ceiling, and what the room is for. From that we can give a build-up and a BOQ rather than a price per square foot.
Next step
Send a plan and a section, get a real build-up
Send what you have. We will give you a layer by layer build-up, a bill of quantities and a date material lands, and we will flag anything in the brief that will not achieve what you want.